 You see, that's Krista Ball, she's a lefty, and she is, you know, I don't know how far left, but it sounds like she's pretty far left when you hear what she has to say, it's going to be pretty far left. Let me put it on my headphones so I can hear what she actually says. And you're going to hear, the first thing she'll do is she's going to go to a clip of Ian Omao's statement that everybody's upset about dismantling this system. We'll talk about that, and we'll talk about Krista Ball's diatribe over it, basically in support of Omao. Making heads explode. Latest controversy was sparked when she said the following. As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit, without considering who is profiting? I mean, what kind of profit would she be okay with? My assumption is that she's a committed socialist, so the only kind of profit she would be okay with is if the workers were profiting. What she resents is that the owners, the capitalists, the entrepreneurs, the business owners are profiting. That is her objection because she's a real socialist. Who is being shut out? Who is being shut out? I don't know who is being shut out. Which way is inequality? And of course the standard is inequality, perpetuate the inequality. The idea is that inequality is the evil, and they conflate, they conflate. With economic inequality. They don't differentiate because I'm all for equality, political equality. What I'm against, right, so I'm all for what I'm against is economic equality. That's a disaster, and it's a huge violation of rights, and it's a huge violation of the idea of political equality. Like equality necessitates political inequality. It necessitates taking from someone giving to others. It's necessitate not treating everybody the same in terms of rights, in terms of freedoms. But you see they use inequality as a catch-all. You might think they're talking about racial inequality before the law, but what they're really talking about is that plus economic inequality. And the only solution to economic inequality is of course socialism or egalitarianism or communism or some form of egalitarianism. So we cannot stop at criminal justice system. We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it. Now what is oppression? Now note again, equivocation, right? I'm all for dismantling any system that oppresses people in a sense of physical oppression, coerced oppression, or just irrational discrimination. But that's not what she's talking about. She's talking about oppression of the workers, oppression of economic oppression. So she's talking about economic inequality, which is the product of economic, quote, oppression. She's talking about capitalism as being a system of oppression. Inherent in capitalism is oppression, oppression of the workers. And while the workers get paid a salary, the whole complaint that the Marxists have is that the owner of the business makes a profit on their salary. The owner of the business pays them less than what they produce. Well of course, the owner of the business has to provide them with machinery, with rent, with a risk-free salary. He has to provide them with a market. He has to provide them with the vision, the organization, the management, everything that goes into building a business. So yes, he's making a profit off his workers. People like Richard Wolfe, the pseudo-economist, but Marxist, committed Marxist, don't get that. To them it's a mystery. To them the worker should get paid his entire worth to the owner because they believe their value is intrinsic. They don't see that the worker is worth something to the owner, but that doesn't make him worth that. It doesn't mean he needs to be paid that. Indeed, he wouldn't have the job if he was paid, in a sense, his full everything supposedly that he produces. But this goes back to Marx. This is Marx's materialism. This is the misunderstanding of the world of the mind, the world of the mind. So it's purely from a Marxist perspective this oppression is coming. Omar is an economic Marxist. She is, when she talks about dismantling the whole system of oppression, what she's talking about is dismantling whatever remnants of capitalism are left. She's talking about dismantling the mixed economy for the sake of what? Dismantling the mixed economy for the sake of socialism, for blown all out socialism. The workers owning the means of production, which as we know, as I think this audience knows well, is a recipe for absolute disaster, absolute catastrophe. In a free market, there is no such thing as economic oppression. Economic oppression is a consequence, if you take your word seriously, is a consequence of force. In a free market, there's no force. A free market, it's all voluntary exchange. You get paid based on what you're worth. And if you don't like what you get paid, you go find a different employer. And if nobody's willing to pay you more than your employer is paying you right now, that's what you're worth and not a penny more. And indeed, the fact that you're willing to go and take that wage suggests that you're better off for it. That indeed, your other alternatives constitute something worse. No, economics is form of impulism. Matthew, go read some real economics. Moxism is not economics. Moxism is a bogus political philosophy. Mox was a lousy economist. Almost everything he ever did economic wise has been proved wrong completely, absolutely. And you got to start over. You got to start over your thinking. We've got a Moxist here on the thing. Yeah, Africa was rich. Africa was rich before China got there. And China is exploiting it. Of course, Africa was rich before the imperialists came and stole all their wealth. Give me a break. Africa's always been poor. The world is not a zero sum game. The world is not about exploitation. The world is about win-win relationships, building, making, producing, expanding wealth. But this is the point, this zero sum mentality, this idea that economics is exploitation, that capitalism is exploitation, that capitalism is systemic oppression. You can say Matthew's a dummy as Frank does, but this is the dominant view out there. This is becoming a dominant view out there. More and more and more people believe this. More and more and more people are buying into this. More and more and more policy is going to be based on this. And this is, again, left and right. Tucker Carlson, to some extent, believes this. Finance is oppressive. Private equity is destructive. Trade is zero sum. The president of the United States believes that. Marx was a Kantian. Yes, he was. So these notions, these Moxist notions of economics have seen a real, you know, I guess come back. They're all over the place. I see them everywhere. And it truly is scary. Somebody says, no, Marx was really a Hegelian. Yeah, Marx is a Hegelian, but Hegel is a Kantian. So they're all Kantians in the end. That whole tradition of German philosophy is Kantian. But yes, Marx is directly impacted by Hegel. His whole construction, his whole way he constructs his theories is Hegelian. All right, so it's really scary how ideas that have been refuted over and over and over again over the last, what, 12, 14 decades since the 1880s or even before that since Adam Smith, that ideas that have been refuted in economics over and over and over again, keep coming back, keep coming back. And that's Kant. That's saying reality doesn't, you know, we don't know what reality is in a sense, in a deep sense, we make it up. So reality doesn't matter. Facts don't matter. What matters is your perception at this point in time. And given that our university professors have been leftists for 100 years, over 100 years, I guess it doesn't really, isn't really that surprising that Marxism keeps rearing its ugly head every few, every few decades, only to be slapped down by reality. But in the meantime, it does massive amounts of damage to the world. This is over the last 120 years, you know, nothing has been more damaging. Nothing has been more destructive than Marxist ideology. It enslaved a big portion, what a significant, a majority of the human race for decades. And of course, remember, even the Nazis weren't national socialists. And to a large extent, the Nazis came to power as a rebellion against the communists. Without the communists, you never get the Nazis. So Marx is responsible for, you know, hundreds of millions or somewhere between 100 to 200 million deaths. And yet he keeps coming back, keeps coming back. They won't give him up. And it's such a primitive, it's such a primitive understanding of the world and a primitive understanding of economics, truly perceptual. There's no thinking involved. There's no conceptualization involved. Think about just the act of trade, which they conceive as zero sum or exploitation. Now why would two parties voluntarily engage in a trade if they weren't both going to be better as a consequence? In a free world, there are plenty of opportunities to walk away from one trade, engage in more beneficial trades. All right, let's see. Let's, okay, so we're not going to talk about crystal. Crystal ball. But I guess she's a, she's a somewhat known leftist and let's see what she has to say about Omar's statement. So for some reason, this caused RNC research teams, Republican politicians and reactionary outlets like the Daily Caller to utterly melt down. Marsha Blackburn tweeted, Ilhan Omar took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution, not shred it. Omar and her Marxist comrades are a threat to our democracy. She should resign. Well, I mean, there's a certain sense in which that is true, although not really. I mean, she wants to take the mixed economy further down the road to socialism where we're heading anyway. She just wants to accelerate the process. She is a Marxist. She is a socialist. I don't know why that's controversial. That seems obvious. And Marxism and socialism are anathema to the American constitution and the principles in which this country was founded. But of course, it's kind of funny coming from mixed economy Republicans to argue this and to argue that she should resign when my view is all of them should resign. Democrats or Republicans, they should all be out of there because none of them understand what this country is really about, what the two principles of this country. And as I said, I don't want to really want to dismantle the whole system. I want to bring about real capitalism. I want to get rid of all government intervention in the economy, all intervention in the economy needs to be done, gone. We need real capitalism in this country. Only then, only then will we be truly free, only then to use their terminology will oppression end in America. Indeed, racism, the cure for racism is individualism and capitalism. There's almost no political problem in the world out there. There is no political problem in the world out there. The capitalism is not the solution for it. What brave patriots will stand with Marsha Blackburn in defense of our systems of oppression? It's all foolish, of course, but I wanted to actually use this opening of right wing mania to dig into Congresswoman Omar's comments because of course she is 1000% correct in her assessment. 1000% correct. So Cristobal is amoxious too, well it's good to know. And as we've watched the COVID pandemic and millions lose their jobs and their healthcare and the stock markets or as we've watched anguished protesters know that this is part of the problem, right? What she's identifying is something that is truly troubling and something that is a phenomenon in the mixed economy. On the one hand we've seen millions of people lose their jobs, businesses shut up, she won't mention businesses because she's anti-business, she's anti-private businesses, right? So she won't mention the business owners that have lost their income, that have lost their businesses, that have laid off their people. I'll only mention the workers because that's all she can conceptualize, that's all she can recreate. But it's truly stunning that it truly is pretty weird, right? That you've got an economy that has just shrunk significantly, the estimates are that the United States economy over the next, over this year will shrink by somewhere between four to five percent, maybe even more than that. Who knows? That's a destruction of wealth. We are going to be at the end of this supposedly poorer in terms of economic production by five percent. And yet the stock market is up, it doesn't care. It's kind of flat for the year, as if nothing's happened. And that's confusing. It's confusing to the socialist Marxists, but to them it's obvious, to them it's about the evil capitalists and markets have nothing, markets are just speculative casinos, they have nothing to do with the real economy anyway. But you see, to explain what's going on is complicated. Because the reason millions of people have lost their jobs is to a large extent because of status policies. That is the government shutting our economy down, shutting human life down rather than doing its job and dealing with pandemic by testing, tracing and isolating. So we shut down the economy for months and months now. And by the way, just that, the failure of the government to do its job should be reason enough to go after our politicians, those that are in power today, and replace them all, starting with the president and then all of these governors were completely blowing it, completely. Blue, red, all of them are blowing it completely. But then you have to bring in the Fed, printing six trillion dollars, pumping that into the economy, basically implying that maybe they would even buy stocks if the stock market got into trouble, buying bonds, subsidizing zombie companies. That's not capitalism. So yes, the world as it is today is nuts. It's insane what's going on out there. It really does look like it doesn't make any sense to the common person. I'm not surprised. Crystal seems like, you know, nice lady, just she's very confused. But it makes sense that you would be confused. It's not easy, unless you're an economist, unless you studied economics, then it's not easy to figure out what exactly is going on out there. But what's going on out there, we can, we who know what capitalism is, know is not capitalism. But go explain it to people. They don't know. You say, oh, we want a separation of state from economics. That's so abstract. That's so difficult to imagine. We want private banking. We don't want a federation. Whoa, that's so radical. That's so crazy. So people, what they see today looks like exploitation. It looks like the rich who have stocks are doing great. And the rest of the economy and everybody else is getting crushed. And again, there is truth to that. Because the powers to be are making that happen. They're crushing the economy. They're crushing workers. And they're letting that, in a sense, there's an implicit subsidy for the stock market. But that's cronyism, that's statism, that's socialism. That's not capitalism causing all this. And you see, you have to unpackage all these things. Because otherwise, people come to the wrong conclusions. And it's hard to blame them for coming to the wrong conclusions. Particularly when nobody out there, nobody out there is actually educating them. Nobody out there is actually telling them the truth about the world, about what's going on, about who's responsible, and about what the solutions are. You've got a world with alternatives. Ihan Omaha and Donald Trump. It's a confusing world. Not to me, not to us. We know exactly what's going on. Take to the streets and peer over the precipice of utter societal breakdown. If you aren't thinking that a total dismantling is not only the right course, but the most realistic... I believe it's the right course. It's just not the kind of course you would like. Yeah, I'd like to see regulations go to zero. I'd like to see taxes get flat with no deductions or maybe just consumption taxes. I'd like to see subsidies go to zero. I'd ultimately like to see welfare and Social Security and Medicaid go to zero. I'd like to see the total complete, utter, unequivocal privatization of the healthcare system. And if we did that, if we did that, this COVID-19 would have been easy to deal with. That's the kind of dismantling of the system I think is necessary right now. But to take everything that doesn't work, welfare, socialized medicine, government involvement in finance, call it the Fed, government involvement in the economy, call it regulations and controls, and double up on it because it hasn't worked a little bit, so maybe it'll work if we do it all the time constantly. That's insanity. It's insanity. No way on Earth, no one planet Earth has your system of government ever succeeded. And indeed what it has done, it has impoverished people, turned them to poverty, destroyed the economic system, and in the most radical or most extreme cases, resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people. That's the system you want to recreate. I mean, this is again the unbelievable nature of the left. They advocate for ideas that you cannot say have not been tried. They advocate for ideas that have been tried over and over and over and over again, fail every time, lead to death, destruction of poverty every time, and yet they want to do it again, this time it'll be different, this time we'll get it right, this time it'll work. They are truly insane. Capitalism has killed nobody. Capitalism indeed is a system that has brought everybody who's out of poverty today is out of poverty because of capitalism. Capitalism to the extent that it has been tried, and it's rare that it's ever been tried, but to the extent that it has brought people massive amounts of wealth, has expanded life expectancies, more than doubled, well more than doubled life expectancy, have brought us medical innovation, technological innovation, transportation innovation, innovation in every field of life. I've seen this stupid meme of capitalism killing a billion because every society in human history that, going back thousands of years that has killed people, they say it's capitalism. They reinvent the word, they redefine it, they make it up. But capitalism is a very particular system. You guys should actually read your Karl Marx. Karl Marx at least, he was wrong on almost everything, but at least he got what capitalism contributed. If you read what about capitalism and how capitalism raised the standard of living, the capitalism benefit of mankind, indeed Karl Marx believed you had to go through a period of capitalism to break the feudal grip, but he didn't think that a thousand years ago we had capitalism. He says, capitalism is great until you run out of other people's labor. I mean that is the dumbest thing of everhood. Oh my God, what happens when you run out of other people's labor? You build robots. Give me a frigging break. Oh God. And by the way, we've got still about five billion people who are quite happy to engage in labor for capitalists. But when they run out, we'll just design robots to replace them. Marxists are so primitive, so concrete, so perceptual. They literally can't think. But this is a system that's gaining adherence. This is a system that's winning. And part of why they're winning is they're very few people who are willing to stand up for capitalism unapologetically and slam the Marxists for what they really are. All the wealth that we have in the world today, almost all of it, 99% of it has been created over the last 250 years under a little bit of capitalism. Not even consistent capitalism. We've only approached real capitalism in a couple of places a couple of times during the last 200 years. It's rare, but we haven't defended it. We haven't been passionate at our fence. So these really superficial ideas keep bubbling up to the surface over and over again. All right, let's go back to Crystal. Practical choice to get out of this? I don't know where you've been, but I can probably guess your class status. So the practical choice to get out of this is socialism. And again, socialism is a system that only creates poverty, only creates destruction, only creates oppression, only creates devastation. That's the practical means of getting out of this. And notice that she says she can guess your class status. Because according to Marx, you are determined by your class. Marx is an anti-free world determinist. He believes that your ideas, your character, who you are and what you are is determined by the class you belong to. You, you don't choose. You don't choose your ideas. Your ideas choose you based on what class you're born to. In that sense, Marx is just like the racists who believe that your ideas come from the color of your skin or for your race. Now, of course, Marx was also racist. He was certainly an anti-Semites. And if you're interested in Marx, the anti-Semite, I've got a talk that you can find online. Just do anti-capitalism, anti-Semitism, your own book. You'll find my talk and I give you quotes from Marx on his anti-Semitism. But yeah, once you're a determinist, once you're a determinist, then it's inevitable you're gonna be either a Marx type of class determinist or a racist or both. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist broad. Using the super chat, and I noticed yesterday when I appealed for support for the show, many of you step forward and actually supported the show for the first time, so I'll do it again. Maybe we'll get some more today. If you like what you're hearing, if you appreciate what I'm doing, then I appreciate your support. 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